If I Stay

By Gayle Forman

Categories: Literature & Fiction, Romance

If I Stay is a young adult novel by Gayle Forman, published in 2009. Seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, is in a car accident that kills her parents and younger brother and leaves her in a coma. Outside her body, she watches her friends and family gather at the hospital and remembers her life, her music and her boyfriend Adam. She must decide whether to stay and go on living. The book was adapted into a film in 2014.

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• John Green: “And if you liked the no-spoilers parts, then I recommend Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King and If I Stay by Gayle Forman.”